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defendant s name because it could affect the outcome of the case, and you exercise great personal restraint and those of us who take the duty seriously you don t do that. so if we can t google the defendant or other people who are involved in the case, why should attorneys, who should be doing that work in voir dire why are they having the time to look at pin interest, four square, facebook, whatever the social media platform may be. ashley, they ruled it s an extension of voir dire? exactly. and it is. what happens during trial a lot of times i ll have an intern or paralegal of mine with the jury list, sitting in the courtroom, and looking through the juror list and seeing if they re on facebook on instagram. the problem is we have such a limited amount of time to see these people and see if they would be an appropriate juror. so this is a tool to get to know that person because a lot of times precipitation won t open